Understanding Music

Philosophy and Interpretation

Sir Roger Scruton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-7017-5 (ISBN)

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With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of music and the second consists of critical studies of individual composers, thinkers and works including essays on Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven's Ninth, Janácek & Schoenberg, Szymanowski and Adorno. Understanding Music will appeal to specialists in philosophy and musicology and also to music lovers who wish to find deeper meaning in this mysterious art. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new preface from the author.

Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020) is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books, and visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington DC, USA.

Preface

Part I

1 Introduction
2 Sounds
3 Wittgenstein on music
4 Movement
5 Expression
6 Rhythm

Part II

7 My Mozart
8 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
9 The trial of Richard Wagner
10 A first shot at The Ring
11 True Authority: Janacek, Schoenberg and us
12 Thoughts on Szymanowski
13 Why read Adorno?

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	29.02.2016
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Revelations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-4742-7017-4 / 1474270174
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-7017-5 / 9781474270175
Zustand	Neuware